54% of Filipinos say: Victims did not fight back

More than half of Filipinos believe that many of those killed by law enforcers in the anti-drug campaign were not able to fight back, based on a special Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results.

Fifty-four percent of Filipinos agree that many of those killed by the police as part of the government’s anti-drug campaign did not fight back, 20 percent disagree, and 25 percent percent were undecided on the matter.

Twenty-seven percent are undecided, and the remaining 23 percent disagree on the issue.

In Metro Manila, 58 percent agree that many who have been killed were not drug pushers, followed by the Visayas at 52 percent, the rest of Luzon at 48 percent, and Mindanao at 45 percent.

Belief in the innocence of those killed by police was lowest among class ABC at 38 percent, followed by class E at 45 percent, then class D at 51 percent.

SWS also noted that false accusations of drug involvement were believed by many Filipinos to be the cause of many police killings.

Filipinos were asked if they agree or disagree with the statement, “Marami ang nagsisinungaling at itinuturo ang kanilang mga personal na kaaway bilang drug user/pusher para mabigyang dahilan na patayin ang mga taong ito ng mga pulis o vigilante. (Many are lying and pointing to their personal enemies as drug users or pushers in order to give an excuse for these people to be killed by police of vigilantes.)”

Fifty percent of Filipinos agree with the statement, with a higher rate of agreement in Metro Manila (63 percent), where most of the killings have occurred, than the rest of the country.

The level of agreement in Mindanao was 51 percent, 42 percent in the Visayas, and 50 percent in the rest of Luzon.

….everybody and the killers and murderers in police uniform should be aware that what goes around comes around and they will get the same treatment sooner then later

Jose Samilin

Forensics cannot be replaced by the mere counting of noses. Surely the survey is irrelevant.

concerned citizen

We should note that the question in the survey was: “Many of those killed by the police in the anti-drug campaign did not really fight against the police.” Do you strongly agree? Somewhat agree? Somewhat disagree? or Strongly disagree.

The key word here is “MANY”

Those who agreed IN MANY does not necessarily mean they think that most or even majority of those killed by the police were shot without a fight. How do you define “many”? Many can be subjective. For some 10 may already be many but for others it could be a hundred. But even a hundred is less than 1% of the reported 3000 killings. The way the survey was made, allows a subjective interpretation of the results. And that is what the HRW is now doing.

i think anyone with enough common sense and intelligence would see that
the Duterte admin only started persecuting SWS when they showed unpleasant statistics. it simply shows this guy neither has intelligence nor common sense…